We spin the dreidel from the TOP, and we spin the Gragger (noisemaker) on Purim from the BOTTOM. Rabbi Mordechai Becher looks at the significance of this and other ideas behind the simple Dreidel.
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As the weather gets colder one of the things that I have been thinking of is chapped skin. Yes, my hands get very rough and chapped. I use a hand cream on them, but, when I put on my tie I can actually feel the fabric catching on my skin! I cannot help thinking that one of the reasons my hands are chapped is because as a religious Jew I ...